a strategic framework for lifelong learning: update on the inquiry into the future for lifelong...
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A strategic framework for lifelong learning:update on the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning
Tom Schuller
Director, IFLL
UCU conference, Birkbeck , April 2009
IFLL Goals
The overall goal is to offer an authoritative and coherent strategic framework for lifelong learning in the UK. This will involve:
• Articulating a broad rationale for public and private investment in lifelong learning
• Reappraising the social and cultural value attached to it
• Developing new perspectives on policy and practice.
The contradictory (?) functions of LL
Mobility and changeEquity and fairnessCohesion and tolerance
IFLL Final ReportIFLL Strategic Framework for Lifelong Learning
Interim Papers
Thematic Stocktake Sectoral Public Value
Prosperity Employment & Work
Demography and Social Structure
Wellbeing and Happiness Migration and
Communities Technological Change Poverty Reduction Citizenship and Belonging Crime and Social
Exclusion Sustainable Development
Public Sector Investment Private Sector Investment Third Sector Investment Individual Commitment
Participation, over 10 years
Early childhood Schools Further Education Higher Education Local Authorities Voluntary Sector Family learning Private Training Providers
Poverty Health Crime Wellbeing Equality
Horizon Scanning / Scenario Planning
Outline of Inquiry Papers
Source: Counting the Cost, Niace 2008
Source: Counting the Cost, Niace 2008
Key emerging lines
1.Rebalancing: a new model2.Entitlements3.A citizens curriculum
‘Lifelong’ learning: the need for a new model
- Demographics- Economic
- Social
UK demographics are changing …
= Working age
Source: Counting the Cost, Niace 2008
The Educational Lifecourse: a new and simple model
‘Four Quarters’: 0-25; 25-50; 50-75; 75+• The paradox of chronological age• ‘Staging posts’: the need for markers in a
fluid world• Neuroscience, sociological, epidemiological• No hard boundaries, but reduced arbitrariness
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Stocktake: ParticipationNIACE Adult Participation in Learning Survey, 2008
17 – 24 25 – 49 50 – 74 75+
All current or recent learning
67% 45% 27% 11%
Balanced by:
-Solidarity and cohesion across and within generations-- Diachronic approach: the cumulation of (dis)advantage
Offenders and education
• Failure of initial education: low formal skills/human capital
• Learning from peer groups: wrong kind of social capital
• Family disconnection: 150,000 children with parents in prison
• Creativity
‘Citizens curriculum’: four capabilities
1. Financial2. Health3. Digital4. Civic
Help please
-Top propositions
-Entitlement scope
- Pedagogies and capabilities
-Title!
A Strategic Framework for LL: provisional outline
1. Vision and Values
2. Stocktake/Overview: Expenditure and Participation
3. The Social Productivity of LL
4. Roles and Responsibilities
5. System Performance: measurement and evaluation
